books by John Nichols

books by John Nichols

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John Nichols

John Lahr, Andre Gregory, ...

Abrams, 2008

Comments by Michael Calum Jacques author of '1st Century Radical'.
This fascinating book could be described as a collaborative effort and can best be enjoyed for what it is when we know something of the variety of characters contained within its pages. Richard Avedon was born in to a Jewish-Russian family in New York on May 15, ...

The Sterile Cuckoo (Norton Paperback Fiction)

John Treadwell Nichols

W. W. Norton & Company, 1996

Very underrated piece of literature
John Nichols made quite an impression with his first novel about a first life-altering love. Though written in 1965, it proves that even though times change, emotions and some situations don't. Jerry Payne was on his way to college when he meets Pookie Adams in the ...

Tail-End Charlies: The Last Battles of the Bomber War, 1944--45

John Nichol, Tony Rennell

St. Martin's Griffin, 2008

Tail End Charlies
Great read. My son is reading now. You get a new appreciation for what these young men did in WW II. The author relates so many great previously untold stories. As this generation of people passes, this book will become more important to tell their story.

Dick: The Man Who is President (Dick Cheney)

John Nichols

New Press, 2004

An unauthorized first biography
George Bush may officially hold the power, but Dick Cheney is the real man in office: that's the message of John Nichols' Dick: The Man Who Is President, an unauthorized first biography of the most powerful VP in American history. From his involvements in Reagan-era ...

On the Wild Edge: In Search of a Natural Life

David Petersen

Holt Paperbacks, 2006

Yarns of Naturalism
What a treat! I bought this from Amazon back when it first came out in hardcover, and it has resided on my to-be-read shelf all this time. We now have snow here and, in a wintry mood, I was prompted to pick this one up after finishing Vardis Fisher's excellent THE ...

Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty

W.L Rusho, Vicky Burgess

Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 1973

A great book detailing the travels and life of Everett Ruess
This is a great book, if you want to read about Everett and his travels around the Southwest and the Grand Canyon and Lake Powell area.

A God Entranced Vision of All Things: The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards

Stephen J. Nichols

Crossway Books, 2004

Historical Theology/Biography with Plenty of Application!
A God Entranced Vision of All Things is a wonderful look at the legacy and relevance of Jonathan Edwards life and teachings. John Piper and Justin Taylor have assembled (and also contributed to) a remarkable series of essays on the different aspects of Edwards' ...

Black Sun: A Novel

Edward Abbey

Johnson Books, 2003

You can almost smell the great outdoors...
An early Abbey work, Black Sun is a very good novel written in a style similar to John D. MacDonald only more alive, more real. Will Gatlin is much like Travis McGee, an imperfect fellow who has learned to live life on his own terms and makes no apologies for it. An ...

The Magic Journey: A Novel

John Nichols

Holt Paperbacks, 2000

An extraordinarily written book
John Nichols is perhaps one of our best contemporary writers, and it's a shame that he isn't more prolific and more accessible to the general reading public. He uses language like poetry, and his characters jump off the pages with their idiosyncracies. There are good ...

The Milagro Beanfield War: A Novel

John Nichols

Owl Books, 2000

WWIII New Mexico Style
When Joe Mondragon illegally irrigates a puny beanfield, he starts WWIII and becomes the unwitting, reluctant symbol of this battle between the haves and the have nots. The book is absolutely hilarious with its wry yet rich descriptions of the people and the cultures ...

The Nirvana Blues: A Novel

John Nichols

Holt Paperbacks, 2000

"Nichols is the best American author since John Steinbeck"
A gripping American novel "The Nirvana Blues" captures the richness of the late 20th century. Nichols creates characters that nearly rival Steinbeck's Doc and the entire Joad clan. Nichols excels in both humor and human compassion. You don't know whether to laugh or ...

Enriqueta Vasquez And the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito Del Norte (Hispanic Civil Rights) (Spanish ...
Enriqueta Vasquez

Arte Público Press, 2006

As a teenager, long before Enriqueta Vasquez became a writer and activist, she wrote her first letter to complain against the injustice she saw around her while growing up in the Southwest. Why was she, a Mexican American, not allowed to eat in local restaurants, while her brothers were fighting to preserve their country?s principles of freedom ...

Our Media, Not Theirs (Open Media Series)

John Nichols, Robert W. McChesney

Open Media, 2003

Out of The Margins
The key issue today is media reform. An aggressive and adversarial press is crucial to our democracy. Much of the apathy and disappointment that people express with the state of the world is due in no small part to the media. In my opinion, Americans have always been ...

Who Ate My Cheese?
John Nichols

Lulu.com, 2008

You read the famous cheese book and digested its message. Perhaps it even moved you. Now here's your chance for a fresh perspective, an opportunity to understand cheese from the bottom up.

A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe

John D. Nichols, Earl Nyholm

University of Minnesota Press, 1995

Superb
John Nichols and Earl Nyholm are two of the top linguistic experts on the Ojibwe language, and this dictionary is a collaboration between the two of them. It contains many words for parts of modern life (bemisemagak, "airplane," wiisiniwigamig, "restaurant," odaabaan, ...